Am anderen Ende von Afrika (2002)

Am anderen Ende von Afrika (2002)    

Genre(s): Drama   

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Medium: Sonstiges

Bemerkungen:   UK DVD von Optimum:

Special Features
Cast and crew biographies
Background information
Trailer reel

DVD Technical Information:
Language: French
Subtitles: English
Colour
PAL
Running time: 84 minutes
From the Back Cover
Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s second feature following the award-winning Bye Bye Africa offers confirmation of the arrival of a visually assured and highly sophisticated new talent in world cinema. Set in Haroun’s native Chad, the sensuous Abouna begins with the striking image of a man in Western dress crossing a desert in the southern Sahara. The man, who pauses briefly to stare down the camera lens, is the father of 15-year-old Tahir (Ahidjo Mahamat Moussa) and Tahir’s eight-year-old brother Amine (Hamza Moctar Aguid). After being told by their beautiful mother (Zara Haroun) that he has left them , the two brothers undertake a momentous journey in an attempt to fill the void left by his absence.

A lucid, contemplative piece of cinema, Abouna’s pleasures are multiple. Told with a remarkable narrative economy that carries both the simplicity and import of a parable, the film also counts amongst it virtues faultless performances from the two young leads, an evocative rendering of time and place courtesy of Abraham Haile Biru’s magnificent cinematography and a haunting, meditative score by Malian guitarist Ali Farka Toure.